Australian Power Grid (AEMO NEM)
The spot price and operational demand of Australia's National Electricity Market - one of the most volatile power markets on earth (huge solar/wind, grid batteries, price spikes to the market cap). AEMO publishes the Regional Reference Price (RRP, AUD/MWh) and operational demand (MW) per NEM region as one CSV per month × region; we stitch them into one clean multi-region, multi-metric Parquet - 5-minute from Oct-2021, 30-minute before. Mirrors the ENTSO-E / EIA / Elexon power products, extending the grid suite to the Australian continent.
- Source
- AEMO
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Intraday
- Data through
- 2026-07-31
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- Spot price (RRP, AUD/MWh) + operational demand (MW) for all 5 NEM regions
- NSW1, QLD1, VIC1, SA1, TAS1 - the whole National Electricity Market
- 5-minute intervals (2021-10→), 30-minute before; interval-ending, UTC
- The world's most volatile major power market - spikes, negative prices, battery arbitrage
- Contains data © AEMO, used with attribution; AEMO does not endorse this product
- Source: Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | NEM region (NSW1, QLD1, VIC1, SA1, TAS1) | 100.0% | 5 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Interval-ending timestamp | 100.0% | 574,032 |
| metric | str | Spot price / Operational demand | 100.0% | 2 |
| value | float | AUD/MWh (price) or MW (demand) | 100.0% | 823,638 |
| unit | str | Unit | 100.0% | 2 |
| res_min | int | Interval length (5 or 30 minutes) | 100.0% | 2 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: AEMO (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("australian-power-grid_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 5 zones
NSW1 · QLD1 · SA1 · TAS1 · VIC1
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